3. The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or eumenides. The furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him. (Emerson)

4. One of the Parcae, or fates, especially. Atropos. Comes the blindfury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. (Milton)

5. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.